The author examines selected examples of post-1945 Austrian literature, asking what pictures of the Second World War they imparted and what role they played when, certainly from 1948 on, a certain ...image of history began to take shape in Austria against the background of the Cold War. This image involved a fade-out in particular of the racist nature of the war, and it had a collectively exonerating and distorting impact. Attention is paid to the stories and novels of former participants in the war and National Socialists, such as, for example, Erich Landgrebe, Erich Kern, Hans Gustl Kernmayr, Kurt Ziesel. A contrast is seen in the anti-war novel, Letzte Ausfahrt (Last Exit) (1952) by the former soldier Herbert Zand, who turns against the dominant image of history, as well as in Ingeborg Bachmann's use of war memories as a topic. The texts are read as a reservoir of selective memory: on the one hand they are critical, individual counter-memories and on the other hand, they make a positive contribution to the formation of the aforesaid collective image. One may say that a war of perception was fought around the Second World War; it was undoubtedly won in the immediate post-war years by those literary works that legitimized or at least trivialized the war. The critical voices of Herbert Zand, Gerhard Fritsch, and Ingeborg Bachmann were unfortunately the quieter ones and were not particularly successful in their time.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig Leiber, Justin
Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science,
2005, 20050000, 2006-01-15, Letnik:
4
Reference
For his views on language, logic, and mind, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) is perhaps the most studied, most influential, and most puzzling philosopher of the twentieth century.
Australian Literature is beginning to reevaluate issues of national culture and racial identity in a move of separation from Western literary history. The construction of a new literary history based ...upon an exploration of Australian culture necessarily involves the new creation and the new conceptualization of the Australian nation.
This article examines the role of exoticism in Musil's depiction of Austro-Czech relations and Western responses to Indian philosophy in his 1906 novel. It argues that the text undermines notions of ...both Austrian and Western European cultural supremacy and concludes that other works by Musil, Max Brod, and Hermann Broch reveal similar self-critical tendencies.
ellipses... epilepsies Jung, Ena
Modern Austrian literature,
01/2009, Letnik:
42, Številka:
1
Journal Article
This article explores the use of ellipses in two Austrian fictional works from the mid-1960s that prominently feature shamanistic epileptics as protagonists: Thomas Bernhard's Amras and Konrad ...Bayer's der kopf des vitus bering. The fragmentation that results from the ellipses in these texts induces in the reader a disorientation that mimics epilepsy's symptoms.
The object of this article is to expand recent efforts to understand the reception of women authors by adding geopolitical tensions to gender-related considerations. Detailed descriptions of several ...key facets of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's reception provide the basis for an analysis of the fears, needs, and wishes of the reading public and public intellectuals active in the making and unmaking of this Austrian icon. Ebner's literary fate thus serves as a case study in exploring the landscape of Austrian literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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